'Church of Skate': Artist transforms 100-year-old church into an epic skatepark

'Church of Skate': Artist transforms 100-year-old church into an epic skatepark

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Picture shows the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Picture shows mural paintings on the arched ceiling of the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

A skater practices at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders are seen through a door as they practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

A skateboarder practices at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Skateboarders practice at the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Picture shows mural paintings on the arched ceiling of the Kaos Temple skatepark in the northern Spanish village of Llanera in the Asturias region on December 26, 2015. The skatepark is a former church, turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture by the Church Brigade collective. This currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and abandoned for decades until the collective Church Brigade and artist Okuda San Miguel turned the Santa Barbara temple into a skateboarding park. AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / AFP / CESAR MANSO (Photo credit should read CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Kaos Temple, hidden in the northern Spanish village of Llanera, welcomes faithful followers of an eccentric sort.

The currently deconsecrated church was built in 1913 and was once part of a residential complex for workers of a munitions factory. It was abandoned at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and left empty for decades.

Then in 2014, the Church Brigade collective and artist Okuda San Miguel totally transformed the Santa Barbara temple into a vibrant skatepark, serving as a place of pilgrimage for lovers of skate culture.

Aside from an old confessional, everything inside the once-holy "Church of Skate" has since been removed -- making way for a true skateboarder's paradise.

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